6th OT-SVG hook bridge (Re: skia as a shared library, and the (poor) support for Google's OT-SVG variant by libre software
Hin-Tak Leung <[email protected]>
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Just put it through:
https://github.com/rougier/freetype-py/blob/master/examples/ot-svg-example-skia.py
It depends on material in the next skia-python, 117b3:https://github.com/kyamagu/skia-python/pull/197
I think the current plan is for about a dozen beta releases until about skia-python m130 b16 , in the next year and half. (Skia has new release every 4 to 6 weeks...) If things go well, there might be a non-beta release by then.
This is probably the easiest way of coping with some *cough* google *cough* OT-SVG fonts, given rsvg and Adobe Native can't cope. Skia-python comes with a bundled skia, so you don't have to build it yourself.
The plan is to release skia-python m117 b3, whatever state it is, when upstream m118 appears (in about two weeks' time...), etc, until about m130 b16, at least.
On Thursday, 27 July 2023 at 00:43:00 BST, Hin-Tak Leung <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi, it has been a while with any traffic on the create list.
I have had some fun recently with downloading and building skia with ~80MB nework traffic and ~300MB disk space usage, without compromising on functionality:
https://github.com/HinTak/skia-building-fun/
Thought it is probably useful for other projects like libreoffice, etc. Potentially that means Skia is package'able as a shared library for wider use.
Quite surprised that Google Fonts make SVG's in their OT-SVG fonts that some of the most common SVG editors/viewers cannot read correctly:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/librsvg/-/issues/997
https://github.com/adobe/svg-native-viewer/issues/185
https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues/8857
What other SVG editors/viewers are out there? (besides Skia and Webkit, that is - those two work okay). I haven't given batik a go yet.
The context is that I have a few different options of enabling OT-SVG support on any freetype-based application, with an operational but still ugly (code-wise) addition for COLRv1.
https://github.com/HinTak/harfbuzz-python-demos/tree/master/skia-adventure/